Mr. Speaker, when that was quickly rejected, the Liberals still kept Parliament hobbled for months. That is how it is related.
Let us recall that the biggest scandal at that time was the Prime Minister's decision to hand a billion dollars to a couple of guys who had hired his mom to give some speeches. Those well-connected Liberals from WE Charity, with their billion-dollar made-up program, were to give money out to applicants, just like the green slush fund. Liberals giving money to Liberals to hand out to favoured interest groups sure sounds like a familiar scandal to me, but we will come back to Liberal corruption in a bit.
I mentioned at the beginning of my speech that this motion is not really about Liberal corruption as much as it is about the Liberal government's contempt for democracy, and in particular the Prime Minister's disdain for it. The praising of murderous dictators was alarming, but for me, the day the Prime Minister assaulted two members of the opposition on the floor of the chamber is one that should never be forgotten.
Much of the media focused on the Prime Minister's inadvertent assault on a member of the NDP. Here was a so-called feminist Prime Minister elbowing a woman in the breast. That is the kind of man-bites-dog story the media has always loved. What everyone just glided over was the actual and intentional assault on our dearly departed colleague Gord Brown. For Canadians who do not recall the first time this Prime Minister attacked another member on the floor of the House of Commons, I will recap it.
We were all in the chamber for a vote. Before a vote, the government whip and the opposition whip will walk down the centre aisle here to check to see if everyone—